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Battle of the Blogs Goes to College

Round 3 features two college blogs, both of which have been blogging for some time now. The winner(s) receive(s) a coveted spot on the "Blog Battle Winners" list on the right sidebar. Remember you can give two thumbs up if you like 'em both--this is more of a showcase than a tournament.

Things to Act describes itself as offering "BYU blogging, plus political, social, theological, and other random commentary." He's been blogging since January 2004 but has managed to stay below the Bloggernacle radar until recently (I first noticed it in a comment left here by grasshopper about a week ago). Go visit this weblog and for Pete's sake leave some comments while you're there.

Imagination's Fool cites this quote from Ursula K. LeGuin: "My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it." If you look carefully down the link lists on the left you will come across a Bloggernacle section, but with only three links that somehow manages to omit this site. Student attends Bowdoin College (sounds East Coastish) and just took a final in Russian poetry. Not just poetry, Russian poetry, which makes me think of Klingon opera, but I suppose a few vodkas bring out the sensitive side of any Russian on a cold night around the heater in a Siberian winter. By the way, Arwyn Evenstar is at least half a real name rather than a handle, so no name jokes. Or else you lose your spot on the white ships sailing to Valinor and will be doomed to wander deserted sylvan slopes, pining for your departed kin, until the end of the Fourth Age.

Lyle, it's just my way of highlighting new Bloggernacle weblogs and inviting "regular viewers" to go check them out and "vote" for one plus make some comments. The term "battle of the blogs" is an allusion, I suppose, to the "battle of the bands" gigs that FM rock stations run on Friday nights, except I don't force a winner/loser choice. In the Bloggernacle, everyone can be a winner.

Mormon Books 2013-14

Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of MormonismGivens and Grow's warts-and-all biography of this energetic missionary, author, and apostle whose LDS career spanned Joseph Smith's life, the emigration to Utah, and Brigham Young's early leadership of the Church in Utah. My Review